This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being....
Health Equity & Social Justice
KPCC’s Priska Neely reports on one of the reasons it has been so hard to bring down the black infant mortality rate: systemic racism is at the heart of the issue.
The Neighborhood Atlas gives journalists an intriguing new tool to visualize how social advantages vary across cities and regions.
This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being.
Other stories in the series include:
Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. My family is part of this statistic
America's black babies are pay
This story was produced as part of a project for the 2017 California Data Fellowship, a program of the USC Center for Health Journalism.
The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies Zone. The idea of this initiative is that improving life for everyone in the community will ultimately save babies.
A yearlong effort to obtain basic Medicaid provider data in L.A. was rebuffed. Some health care leaders shut their doors gently. Others slammed them shut.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday said he was directing state funds to begin a $15.7 million emergency cleanup at some of Philadelphia’s most rundown schools.
In East St. Louis, the school district is helping parents get back on their feet.
It's one thing to identify the complex social cause of this crisis. It's far harder to combat racism and stop more babies from dying.